Recurring patterns
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
Psychotherapy · Lancing
Psychotherapy for Lancing and the surrounding area, in person or online. Lancing, with its long shingle beach and the landmark chapel of Lancing College, lies west along the coast. From my room in nearby Hove I offer a calm, confidential space to do this work.

In and around Lancing
Life in Lancing
The chapel above Lancing College is visible from most of the town, a fixed point you have looked at for years without particularly thinking about it. Some things in a person work like that. They have always been there, you navigate around them automatically, and it never occurs to you that they could be examined. The feeling that you have to earn your place. The certainty that closeness ends badly. The way you go quiet and disappear rather than ask for anything. These are old arrangements, made early, and they hold their shape long after the circumstances that produced them have gone.
Areas covered
Wherever you are in Lancing, the work is the same, a calm, confidential space shaped around you.
The local picture
Official figures for Lancing, for context rather than as a description of you.
recorded depression on GP registers stood at 14.5% of patients aged 18+ in 2024/25, above the England average of 14.3%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Depression: QOF prevalence (2024/25).
the rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 127.2 per 100,000 in 2023/24, above the England average of 117 per 100,000. Source: OHID Fingertips – Emergency Hospital Admissions for Intentional Self-Harm (2023/24).
24.5% of adults reported a high anxiety score in 2022/23, above the England average of 23.8%. Source: OHID Fingertips – Self-reported wellbeing: high anxiety score (2022/23).
Reviewed June 2026.
Psychotherapy here goes a little deeper and usually a little longer than counselling, into the patterns, beliefs and early relationships that shape how you feel now, so change is understood at the root and holds.
The approach does not change with the postcode, so rather than repeat it on every page you can read it in full, the methods and what each session covers, on the main psychotherapy page, alongside the practical side and how to check my registration.
Sessions take place in a private, comfortable room at Intergen House on Western Road in central Hove, held to the strict BACP confidentiality you would expect. We begin with a free fifteen-minute call to check we are a good fit, and the same sessions are available by secure video if travelling is difficult or you would simply prefer it.
Sustained work needs a reliable weekly hour, and most people keep the same slot in Hove for the length of it. From Lancing that is a twenty to twenty-five minute drive east or a short journey on the coastal train, which is easy enough to maintain across a year. The trip home afterwards gives each session time to settle. Weeks when the journey is impossible are covered by secure video rather than skipped.
Book a free 15-minute callWhat I help with
When the same difficulty keeps returning in different forms.
How early bonds still shape the way you connect now.
Working with a harsh inner voice and a shaky sense of self.
When something unresolved keeps replaying beneath the surface.
Understanding the root, not just quieting the symptom.
Insight that holds, so change does not slip back.
Psychotherapy in Lancing
Psychotherapy is the deeper and longer end of this work, and the usual reason for choosing it is repetition rather than crisis. The same difficulty has come round more than once, in different relationships or different jobs, and you have started to suspect that the common factor is not bad luck. We go back into how you learned to be close to people, what happened to feelings that had no room in your childhood, and the conclusions you drew about your own value long before you could weigh them. That includes grief and loss that were never given proper time, which is common in people who have simply got on with things for decades. Weekly sessions, usually across a year or more, reviewed regularly. In 2023/24 the county's rate of emergency hospital admissions for self-harm was 127.2 per 100,000, with the England average at 117 per 100,000. If you would rather try something shorter and structured first, NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies is free and accepts self-referrals.
Not sure if it is right for you? A free fifteen-minute call is a no-obligation way to talk it through.
Book a free 15-minute callMy counselling sits alongside the help available locally. In Lancing, you can refer yourself directly to NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies for free NHS talking therapy, with no GP referral needed.
Seeing me privately usually means you can start sooner and stay with the same counsellor throughout, working at greater depth and pace; the two can run side by side, and I am glad to work alongside any NHS or GP support you already have.
Other local and national support verified for this area includes:
This is not a crisis service. If anyone is in immediate danger call 999. For urgent mental health support, call NHS 111 and choose the mental health option. The Samaritans are free, day or night, on 116 123, or text SHOUT to 85258.
Lancing questions
In a private room at Intergen House on Western Road in central Hove. From Lancing it is a twenty to twenty-five minute drive east along the A259, or a short train journey, to reach Hove. Every service is also available by secure video across the UK, so you can meet from any private space in Lancing or blend the two.
There is, and people in later life often work quickly because they can see the pattern across a whole lifetime. The question is not how many years are left but whether you want to spend them carrying something unexamined. Plenty of people begin at this stage and are glad of it.
The fee per session stays fixed however long we continue: £80 for an hour, £100 for ninety minutes, £120 for two hours. Nothing is bought in blocks and there is no minimum term. You can pause or stop at any point, and the first 15-minute conversation is free.
NHS West Sussex Talking Therapies provides short, structured therapy free of charge and you can refer yourself. Longer open-ended work of this kind is not generally what it offers. Where a shorter course has already been tried and the same difficulty came back, that tells you something useful.
It very often is. Grief that was managed rather than felt does not disappear; it tends to show up as flatness, irritability or a life that has narrowed without anyone noticing. Longer work gives that the time it never got at the time it happened.
Yes. Long, deep work is done well by secure video by a great many people, and the connection between us matters more than the room. That said, some prefer travelling in every week because the journey marks the hour out. A mixture across the year is common.
Yes. Lancing Station reaches Hove by direct coastal trains, and the A259 takes around twenty to twenty-five minutes by car, so a weekly session is workable. Deeper work benefits from a steady rhythm, and online video sessions can keep it going when travelling in is inconvenient.
We begin with a free fifteen-minute call to see if deeper, ongoing work suits you, then set a weekly time. From Lancing the main-line train through Shoreham to Hove is straightforward, or the A259 takes twenty to twenty-five minutes by car, with parking near the room.
Each session is £80 for sixty minutes, with £100 and £120 options for longer work, after a free consultation. The NHS rarely funds open-ended depth work, favouring short courses, so Lancing clients seeking sustained psychotherapy with a consistent therapist usually choose private sessions.
Yes. Many Lancing clients keep a fixed weekly slot in the Hove room, taking the train in and using secure video when work or family makes travelling hard, without breaking the thread. Evening appointments help protect that continuity around a busy week.
A free fifteen-minute call is the simplest place to start, no obligation, just a chance to see if we are the right fit.
Also available nearby: Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing, Southwick. See all areas I cover.
Also available in Lancing: counselling and therapy, depression counselling and trauma counselling.
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Prefer to meet remotely? The same psychotherapy is available online by secure video across the UK, or see online counselling by region.